The FCT Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, in a statement in Abuja on Monday said that President Goodluck Jonathan approved the reinstatement of the titles.
The titles were part of land allocated between May 17 and 28, 2007 in FCT but alleged to have been irregularly allocated within the time frame and therefore recommended by the Senate to be revoked.
Mohammed explained that the revocation of the plots arose from a resolution reached by the Senate in 2007 based on the report by the Senate Committee on FCT that investigated the activities of an erstwhile FCT minister.
The minister recalled that the Senate had then recommended the withdrawal of 3,645 plots from title -holders on the ground that they were allocated from May 17 to 29, 2007.
The reason given by the legislators for passing the revocation resolution was that the Federal Executive Council was already dissolved at the time the plots were allocated.
Mohammed said, “It was later discovered and confirmed by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation that the FEC was not dissolved until May 29, 2007 when power was transmitted to the succeeding federal administration.
“In view of that discovery and the fact that the implementation of the Senate resolution by the succeeding FCT Administration had inflicted pains on owners of such titles and in many cases resulted in litigation, the matter was revisited by the 6th Senate which subsequently withdrew its earlier resolution.”
He emphasised that based on the Senate resolution, the FCT Administration recommended to the President to approve that all titles revoked as a result of the then Senate resolutions on revoked titles in 2007 be reinstated.
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